Hearing colours

Neil Harbisson was born with Achromatopsia (ACHM) – he sees the world in grayscale. Yet Neil perceives more colours than normal sighted humans – and not just the usual colours we perceive, but infrareds and ultra violets as well. Neil is the world’s first cyborg to interpret colour as sound.

The experimental music sequence in the piece includes samples from PLEASE DON’T MESS WITH MY FRANKENSTEIN by Jared C. Balogh. Also featured is a sample of the track ItrTtistc (Impossible To Reverse/Time That Is Still To Come), a composition out of the Infrasound Laboratory at the University of Hawaii. All other sounds in the story were recorded via Neil Harbisson’s antenna.

Fun fact: RN listeners might remember Joel – a science journalist and former host of Off Track. Joel currently lives and works in New York City.